ABOUT
Fahrenheit Films is a film production company founded in 2017 by Jola Wieczorek. She is an Austrian Documentary Filmmaker of Polish origin. She is a graduate of the International Master Course in Documentary Film Directing «DOC Nomads» for which she was granted a full scholarship. During the master, that involved studying in Lisbon, Budapest and Brussels, she realised various documentaries that were screened at different International Film Festivals.
Her short film List do Polski won the Best Austrian Newcomer Award at the Vienna Shorts. Her graduation movie O que resta celebrated its International Premiere at the 68th Locarno Film Festival. In 2015 she received the START-Scholarship from the Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria. Jola ist the founder of the Vienna based production company Fahrenheit Films and teaches documentary film at a.o. Doc Nomads, Filmkids.ch and Kunstschule Winterthur. Her first feature documentary Stories from the Sea premiered at the Viennale in October 2021, won the Max Ophüls Preis for Best Music in a Documentary and the Local Artist Award at the Crossing Europe Film Festival. Stories from the Sea was also nominated for the Austrian Academy Film Award in the catergory Best Music (composer Julia Kent). In 2023 Jola Wieczorek receives the Outstanding Artist Award from the Federal Chancellery of Austria.
She is based in Vienna and is a member of FC Gloria and Dok.at.
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Her short film List do Polski won the Best Austrian Newcomer Award at the Vienna Shorts. Her graduation movie O que resta celebrated its International Premiere at the 68th Locarno Film Festival. In 2015 she received the START-Scholarship from the Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria. Jola ist the founder of the Vienna based production company Fahrenheit Films and teaches documentary film at a.o. Doc Nomads, Filmkids.ch and Kunstschule Winterthur. Her first feature documentary Stories from the Sea premiered at the Viennale in October 2021, won the Max Ophüls Preis for Best Music in a Documentary and the Local Artist Award at the Crossing Europe Film Festival. Stories from the Sea was also nominated for the Austrian Academy Film Award in the catergory Best Music (composer Julia Kent). In 2023 Jola Wieczorek receives the Outstanding Artist Award from the Federal Chancellery of Austria.
She is based in Vienna and is a member of FC Gloria and Dok.at.
